[thelist] Teaching Fish to staff!!!

[moulder]

I think the best approach is the Portal concept . I prefer Top Tier :
www.toptier.com


Steve Cook wrote:

> I've been noticing an interesting phenomenon lately. As part of my job, I go
> around and talk a lot to our clients. Almost all of them (at least the ones
> I talk to) have large Intranets.  Almost all of them are complaining that
> the reasons they first created Intranets no longer apply. Originally the
> Intranet was intended as somewhere to put all the information that you
> *really* wanted your staff to see. Over time however, the Intranet grew.
> Perhaps several Intranets sprung up. Eventually, the amount of information
> made the Intranet more like an internal internet than a centralised
> information repository.
>
> So many of these companies now have the same problems that sites on the web
> have. They are desparate for eyeballs. Think about Ericsson for instance,
> whoc estimate that they have 10,000 internal web SITES!!! (Yup, sites, not
> pages!)
>
> This is creating demand for a new type of Intranet. Some companies are
> creating meta intranet sites that crawl the rest of the Intranet and help
> users navigate / categorise / monitor this information. Others are creating
> "official" centralised sites, which employees are expected to check into
> regularly if they wish to keep up with company info.
>
> Still others are acting like portals - which is where I come in :-) I should
> explain that my usual WAP .sig I use for evolt is my personal mail .sig. I
> work for a Swedish company who sell tickets to events. We have a business to
> business service and a strong part of what we offer is an extranet site
> tailored to our clients wishes. They then link to this from their Intranet,
> allowing their staff to buy from us on the company account (if the tickets
> are for work use) or paying themselves (some companies even set up an
> account for the employees to use for themselves as a form of bonus!).
>
> Tada! Instant added value to an official company staff Intranet.
>
> Of course, there's more to it than that, but there's the gist (I don't want
> to give away ALL of my boss' business strategy!). I must admit I was a
> little sceptical in the beginning, but it's quite amazing how
> enthusiastically the concept is received. Hence the intro to this mail - I
> truly think this is a new phenomenom within business. Adding value to large
> Intranets is something that companies will start to pay for more and more.
> Remember where you heard it first :-)
>
> Other than that. I agree with Martin's comments. Add value to the Intranet
> rather than trying to dictate that people use it. However, be aware that
> it's no longer a case of "Build it and they will come".
>
> .steve
>
> (p.s. We're working on an upgraded site, so don't be surprised if you think
> "Ewww - I wouldn't let a site that looks that ugly within 100 yards of *my*
> Intranet!")
>
> (p.p.s. Couldn't resist the subject title change!)
>
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>
> > Required reading for anyone working on intranets:
> > http://www.cluetrain.com/
> >
> > >make sure there's "something in it for them" when they use the online
> > >stuff -- for example, update the online versions of all
> > those out-of-date
> > >paper manuals, and make them easier to use than the paper versions
> >
>
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